KYOTO, Oct 26 (News On Japan) –
Around 500 blazing torches lit up the night time sky on October twenty second as Kyoto’s famed Kurama Fire Festival, one of many metropolis’s three most extraordinary festivals, befell round Yuki Shrine in Sakyo Ward.
The pageant traces its origins again to the 12 months 940, when Emperor Suzaku transferred the deity Yuki Daimyojin from the Imperial Palace to Kurama to wish for peace and the happiness of the folks, illuminating the procession route with torches.
Shouts of “Saireiya, Sairyo”—which means “the best festival”—echoed by means of the streets as younger males carrying conventional loincloths carried torches roughly three meters lengthy by means of the group, filling the traditional capital with warmth and lightweight.
Source: 産経ニュース